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BOWIE CLOSES TODAY ♦ Monday Program Ends First of Marylands Spring Meetings. — » Approximately 1,000 Horses Available for Havre, Which Opens on Wednesday. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 12.— Maryland spring racing, begun auspiciously at Prince Q»mi I»ark, Bowie, a week ago Wednesday, will enter on its second phase this coming Wednesday when the spring session of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association begins here. The Bowie meeting will terminate Monday, leaving an open day for horsemen, who will not have already shipped from the Southern Maryland course to make their transfers. The Havre de Grace meeting will run thirteen days. It will be markyl by the distribution of about 3,000 a day among the supporting horsemen and renewals of the Harford and Philadelphia Handicaps, ,000 added money races of three-quarters and one mile and a sixteenth for three-year-olds and over, and the Aberdeen and Chesapeake Stakes. 0.-000 added money races of four and a half furlongs and one l. ile and a ■ sixteenth for two-year-olds and three-year-olds respectively. There will be all of 1,000 horses available for the Havre de Grace races and most of them will be fresh from Eastern training places. Only the bert of the thoroughbreds that have been racing at Bowie in the stables of Harry Payne Whitney and Mrs. Payne Whitney, J. Edwin Griffith. Samuel Ross, Charles Thieriot. Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Mrs. Margaret Emerson Baker, J. F. Richardson. Richard T. Wilson. J. S. Cosden, Edward Beale McLean, Walter J. Salmon. August Swenke. John F. Farrell. Joseph E. Davis, James W. Bean, Thomas Clyde and one or two others will como this way. The others will disperse to the tracks of the West Virginia and Ohio circuit. REINFORCEMENTS EXPECTED. The Bowie strings of the Whitneys, Wilson, Salmon and Cosden will be strongly reinforced from the major divisions of their stables that have been training on Long Island, in New Jersey and at Pimlieo. The biggest reinforcement will come to the H. P. Whitney stable. James Rowe has arranged to augument the string of twenty-two his second trainer, Fred Hopkins, readied up at Benning by at least two dozen of various ages, among them the Whitney Preakness and Derby candidates. Candy Kid, Courageous. The Bat. Backbone. Coronation. Overall. Mother Goose and Swinging, his big handicap hopes Transmute, Klondyke and Flagstaff and a raft of brisk working two-year-olds. Rowe believes he has some fine two and three-year-old material at Brook-dale Farm, in Jersey and is determined to get an early start on Samuel C. Hildreth of the Rancocas Stable, who he is satisfied he will have to heat out if he is to keep the powerful Whitney establishment at the top of the countrys money winning list. Colors that will be seen for the first time in the course of the Havre de Grace meeting will be combinations of William Woodward. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt II. , Samuel D. Riddle. Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords. Mrs. Ambrose Clark, Willis Sharpe Kilmer. George W. Eoft, William A. Read, Major Frank M. White. Larry Waterbury, Carl Wiedemann. Edward F. Whitney, the Seagram Brothers, of Ontario ; Edward F. Simms, Albert C. Bostwick, James B. Smith. Charles A. Mills. E. M. livers, William Daniel, Col. Maxwell Howard. Woods Garth, etc. Not improbably the Harford will draw on the opening day about ten or a dozen first-class sprinters, among them Shuffle Along. Ixird Baltimore II., Martingale, Leopardess. The Vintner. Sun Altos, Tester, Whiskalong. Senator Norris. Modest, etc. The Philadelphia Handicap, which will be run next Saturday, should bring out eight or ten stars of the handicap division, and the Aberdeen, which will be renewed April 2~ . will attract the pick of the two-year-olds that have shown at Bowie, with seven or eight new ones. Havre de Grace will give Philadelphia. Wilmington and New York their first close-up racing. The Harford :issociations splendid track, one of the best mile tracks In the country, is situated midway between Baltimore and Wilmington on a promontory ov r-looking the famous Susquehanna ducking flats.
